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XP Home Freezing Problem (I'm going insane!)

Will W.

Posted 16 December 2006 - 05:56 PM

Will W.

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I've been dealing with my computer locking up for about a month now, I cannot determine 1 particular task that triggers it. When it freezes everything stops in its tracks, mouse wont move and the only way i can shut-down is holding down the power button. Although I have seen this topic posted before, I have tried every solution i have come across. I believe my situation is unique because just about 6hrs ago I did a full reformat of my hard drive
and it locked up again. This of course made me very angry, haveing to spend 2+hrs getting everything together such as drivers. If you need more information, just ask, ill do anything to get my computer back to normal!!!

Posted 16 December 2006 - 08:39 PM

Will W.

Posted 16 December 2006 - 08:44 PM

Will W.

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no floppy drive, i am about to swap my RAM, i still have my old 128 sticks i could always pop in, but the ram i have is newer than the computer, maybe a year old, and it started giving me problems about a month ago. and i finished updating to SP2, i ran hijackthis while i was in the process of doing that

Posted 17 December 2006 - 09:44 AM

Will W.

Posted 17 December 2006 - 11:22 AM

Will W.

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yes, it froze again when i was useing my old ram cards, so my 512's are good. maybe its the pcu voltage? how would i go about checking this? but wouldnt running a lot of programs cause a lack of voltage? because my comp freezes up even when not running anything ='(